Name:Claire FarronAliases: Lightning FarronAge: 21Sex: FemaleSpecies: HumanAppearance: Lightning is a slim but well built young woman standing around 5’7”. She has wavy pink hair and pale blue eyes. She typically wear a tan wide collared jacket with a grey short cut undershirt. Personality: Lightning usually comes off as cold and standoffish. Past that, she has a sheer concentrated determination that drives her to move on to one objective to the next. Even then, she does have a warmer side she shows to those she trusts.

History: In Claire’s early life on the world of Cocoon, she barely got to know her father before he passed, her mother passing years later when she was fifteen. The loss of her parents pained her, but for the sake of moving on and helping her younger sister, Serah, she pushed the past behind her and even changed her name to “Lightning.”

After graduating from high school, she joined Cocoon’s Guardian corps, attaining the rank of Sergeant and was scheduled for officer training. Her time in the corps limited her time spent with Serah putting a strain on their relationship.

On her 21st birthday, Serah told Lightning she was branded as a l’Cie, humans chosen by the almost divine fal’Cies to achieve a certain goal, and that she was going to marry her boyfriend, Snow Villiers. Lightning didn’t believe her sister and drives her away. Later on the same day, Lightning learned that her sister was in fact telling the truth, and goes so far as to discharge herself from the corps to try and find a way to save Serah.

After undertaking an almost impossible task of defying fate, Lighting along with her companions were able to save her sister as well as the world of Cocoon. The reunion is cut short, though, as a manifestation of chaos pulled Lightning through toward Valhalla, a world between life and death. Along the way, time and space twisted, malforming the conduit. Instead of ending up in Valhalla as intended, she ended up in a completely different universe.